Purification, of man-slayers, 212, 215; of hunters and fishers, 216; after contact with a pig, 472; by washing, 473; before partaking of new fruits, 484, 488; by emetics, 485, 488; by standing on sacrificed human victim, 572; by beating, 602

Purificatory ceremonies, at reception of strangers, 195; on return from a journey, 197

 theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, 642, 647; more probable than the solar theory, 650

Queen, name given to last corn cut at harvest, 407; the Harvest, in England, 405; of Athens, married to Dionysus, 142; of the Corn-ears, 405; of Egypt, the wife of Ammon, 142; of Heaven, 337, 711; of May, 127, 129, 131, 320

Queensland, beliefs as to the afterbirth in, 39; namesakes of the dead change their names in some of the tribes of, 253; expulsion of a demon in Central, 562; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 598

Rain, the magical control of, 6278, 234, 629, 645; prayers for, 71, 77, 86, 118, 159161; kings expected to give, 8587, 9899; supposed to fall only as a result of magic, 87; Zeus as the god of, 159; prevented by the blood of a woman who has miscarried, 209